Just Beyond the Trail: Finding the Florida Everglades

Artist

Exhibition Dates

Opening Reception

Wed April 26, 20176:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Magenta Foundation and Air Canada enRoute present a specially commissioned series by Toronto-based photographer Ryan Walker. Hosted by thisopenspace.

The Everglades didn’t make an impression on photographer Ryan Walker until he and a Gladesman glided deep into the cypress trees. There, aboard a pole boat, the highway noise faded and the sounds of osprey, herons and alligators took over. When the area became a national park in 1947, nature took back the 6,000 square kilometers of wetlands, islands and winding waterways. Although many locals had to move from hunting and fishing to tourism, Walker found out that their mental maps of mangroves, canals and marshes are intact (and GPS is no match).